The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our NatureFree Press, 1994 - 248 pagini What is the full meaning of eating? What does it reveal about the soul? What is the meaning of human omnivorousness and the myriad customs that refine human eating, transforming animal feeding into human dining? This book examines the phenomena of eating, natural and cultural - from metabolism, appetite, and taste, to hospitality, table manners, and the ritual meal, and reveals how eating not only feeds the body but also nourishes the soul. |
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... human animal faces the ethical difficulty of bal- ancing and adjudicating the claims of the competing stirrings in his own human soul . For the anthropological account we have just pre- sented raises many deep questions , regarding both ...
... human animal faces the ethical difficulty of bal- ancing and adjudicating the claims of the competing stirrings in his own human soul . For the anthropological account we have just pre- sented raises many deep questions , regarding both ...
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... human form , the remembrance of whom in turn sanctifies and elevates human life . Like all tyrants , who make themselves the measure of all things , the Cyclops lives in folly no less than in wickedness , for he lives in contradiction ...
... human form , the remembrance of whom in turn sanctifies and elevates human life . Like all tyrants , who make themselves the measure of all things , the Cyclops lives in folly no less than in wickedness , for he lives in contradiction ...
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... human self - regard and -pref- erence . Against all reason these arguments attack as illegitimate the preferential love of one's own kind and deny the special natural dig- nity of the human form , which , I claim , we human beings do ...
... human self - regard and -pref- erence . Against all reason these arguments attack as illegitimate the preferential love of one's own kind and deny the special natural dig- nity of the human form , which , I claim , we human beings do ...
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activity appetite Aristotle awareness Babette Babette's feast become begin bodily body bread bread and salt Brillat-Savarin cannibalism carnivores cells Chapter chewing civilized common conversation creatures cultural customs Cyclops desire dietary laws dining dinner party distinction divine drink earth eater edible especially ethical example eyes fact feed flesh freedom fruit Genesis grace guests hand holy hospitality host human eating human form hunger Ibid incisors kind least Leo Strauss Leviticus liberality living form living things look man's manifest Margaret Visser material matter meal means meat metabolism mind moral motion mouth nature necessity neediness Nicomachean Ethics nourishing Odysseus omnivorousness one's organism ourselves philosophical pleasures Polyphemos possible powers present principle psychic question rational rational animal reason regarding relation salt self-conscious sense separation share sight social soul speak speech strangers taste tion tongue Torah transformation true unclean upright posture vegetarian virtue whole wine